Posted on 06/21/2024 8:42:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
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A pair of climate activists sprayed two private jets at a UK airport with orange paint Thursday morning – mistakenly claiming that pop superstar Taylor Swift’s jet was parked nearby.
Police were called to Stansted Airport in Essex around 5:10 a.m. local time following reports that two people had broken into the area and damaged two planes, the BBC reported.
The Just Stop Oil group admitted to being behind the incident, and claimed that Swift’s jet was parked at the airstrip during the demonstration.
Stansted Airport, however, denied that the “Anti-Hero” songstress’ plane was there, the outlet reported.
The two activists – Jennifer Kowalski, 28, and Cole Maconald, 22 — were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage, the outlet said.
“As a precaution, runway operations were suspended for a short period, but no flights were disrupted, and the airport and flights are operating as normal,” an airport spokesperson said.
A video posted by Just Stop Oil showed the pair using a power tool to cut the airport fence open before dashing across the runway and spraying two jets with orange paint.
“We just spray painted the **** out of this jet,” Kowalski said in a selfie video taken at the airfield.
“And the one behind it!” Macdonald chimed in, as both women giggled.
“We need an international treaty against the burning of all oil, coal and gas,” Macdonald insisted in a second video.
“While people are starving, the elite and the rich fly thousands and thousands of feet in the air, above us all. BIllionaires are not untouchable,” she added.
Eagle-eyed sleuths noticed that Kowalski was actually one of 15 fans who met Taylor Swift backstage during the Glasgow stop of the 1989 tour nine years ago, the Daily Mail reported.
A young Kowalski and her sister, Lisa, are seen grinning and hoisting the “Tortured Poet’s Department” singer into the air during the meet-and-greet after the sold-out gig at the SSE Hydro Arena.
The former biology student even once identified Swift as her “hero” and threw parties to celebrate her new music releases, the Daily Mail added.
Swift — who is currently on the UK leg of her record-smashing Eras Tour — has faced criticism from fans and environmental activists for her private jet usage.
In 2022, she topped a list of celebrities with the highest private-jet carbon emissions.
corn starch and food dye again?
How did they get to the airport? Did they drive?
Weather Activists Spray Paint Private Jets because of the weather ,LOL
They mistakenly believe too many things.
My bet is these two idiot wymen do not know what a pitot tube is, and why clogging one with paint might kill someone. (or, a LOT of someones, depending where it comes down.)
Because of the nature of our society there are some people who should not travel along with the rest of us. It’s just too dangerous for them. I saw an interview with Jean-Claude Van Damme. He said, “I have to travel everywhere with a bodyguard. He’s there to get between me and people who want to take a shot at me.” He added, “They’ll just walk up, maybe smiling and I think they want an autograph and suddenly, wham, they hit me. For me it’s a lose lose. If I hit back, they sue me. If I don’t, they get to brag they beat up Jean-Claude Van Damme.” Something similar is probably true of anyone with a lot of fame. Bill Gates, Taylor Swift, former politicians, all are just targets for the percentage among us who are horrible, low-class people hungry for a moment of fame they can get by decking, splashing paint on, or killing someone who is already famous.
“They mistakenly believe too many things”
And don’t know shit about the world and what life is really about.
They’re whole world and existence is digital. Then when reality hits they freak out and can’t handle it.
It looks like airport security is a joke.
Sentence them to cleaning the paint from the two jets - one intentional, one oversprayed - WITH TOOTH BRUSHES!!!
You made the mess, you clean it up.
Who here hoped they had sprayed the Taylor Swift private jet? You just can’t get good useful idiots these days.
These two should be in a prison cell until those aircraft are repaired and all affected are compensated.
All felonies is prosecuted.
They cut through a chain-link fence................
I wonder if terrorists could manage to cut through that same fence.
Security—lol.
“While people are starving...”
They fail to realize, raised in the safe cocoon of the oil economy, that as a percentage, fewer people today are starving than ever before.
When do they get beaten to a pulp?
And pay for it.
How about that “airport security”? Really on the ball aren’t they...
How about instead they get the ever loving s##t beaten out them and get to spend a month or so in hospital.
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